A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

I’m amazed sometimes by the Christians who don’t really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

I have always believed in God.

Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it’s direction you get in His Word or something He’s specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Our God is a forgiving God.

God does not play dice.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‚faith.‘

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

If you want to live in the fullness of God’s anointing, fill your mouth with His Word.

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.